Draft Residential Behavior Evaluation Protocol - Industry Review

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, and the Cadmus Group invite stakeholders to review proposed updates to the Residential Behavior Evaluation Protocol, which is a measurement and verification protocol produced by the Uniform Methods Project (UMP). Updates include:

• A recommendation that evaluators use difference-in-differences rather than simple differences to estimate the lift in efficiency program participation and savings from behavior-based measures
• An overview of recent research concerning behavior-based savings persistence and measure life
• Concepts related to behavior-based savings persistence and measure life, as well as savings accounting framework to demonstrate how program administrators and evaluators can perform home energy report savings accounting with a multi-year measure life
• Guidance to evaluators about econometrically estimating savings persistence and measure life
• A discussion of practical difficulties of estimating savings persistence and measure life.

To participate in the review, download the Word document and add your comments or make edits in track changes mode. Please email the document with your comments and edits to ump@nrel.gov by February 7, 2020.